I let the air out of rear air bags now I cant get them to fill again.

[mrathell]

My rear air bags have always been consistently full, no issues as far as I'm concerned. But today I pulled the fuses and let the air out of them to check the suspension.

Unfortunately after I was done checking the suspension, put the tires back on, connected back the hoses to the air tanks and put the fuses back in, the pump hasn't initiated to fill the air bags back up.

I double checked the fuses and they were good and secure. This included the ones in the rear and the one in the glove box.

I raised up the rear end to take some of the load off of the bags, hoping that would make the pump kick in.

Am I forgetting something?

Is there a way for me to manually connect an air compressor up to them to fill them back up?

The rear end is completely down.

[SlickGT1]

Go for a drive. First make sure fuses are in the right place

[mrathell]

Originally Posted by SlickGT1

Go for a drive. First make sure fuses are in the right place

I ended up taking the cover off of the air pump housing and jumped two wires. That caused for the pump to kick off right away and then I removed the wire after about 30 seconds and the pump kept going on its own.

I took one end of a piece of wire I had laying around and connected it to the red/white wire and the other end to the red/yellow wire. The pump kick off immediately.

Sorry SlickGT1, I tried this before reading your response.

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...l-pump-up.html

[SlickGT1]

Wow cool about the manual pumpup. Learn something every day.